Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
TACITUSThis I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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